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= Volunteers and Tor =
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# Volunteers and Tor
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'''Abstract:''' How can we be nicer to potential volunteers who come up to us?
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**Abstract:** How can we be nicer to potential volunteers who come up to us?
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== The issues ==
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## The issues
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The current [https://www.torproject.org/getinvolved/volunteer.html.en volunteer page] is very long and confusion for new people. New people come to us all of the time and get lost on the page or finding their way through tor to being productive.
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The current [volunteer page](https://www.torproject.org/getinvolved/volunteer.html.en) is very long and confusion for new people. New people come to us all of the time and get lost on the page or finding their way through tor to being productive.
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== Hopeful outcomes ==
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## Hopeful outcomes
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- prioritized list of things new people can do
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== Brainstorms ==
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## Brainstorms
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- facilitate tor user groups
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- inventory of events where tor could be represented by volunteers
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- Hold booth at conferences
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- list of what people can do, and prioritize the list
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=== what could volunteers do? ===
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### what could volunteers do?
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- input for CRM system
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- respond to t-shirt requests
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- distribute flyers
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- code/patch bugs (listed by various levels of difficulty)
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=== challenges to new volunteers ===
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### challenges to new volunteers
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- process to train and empower volunteers
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- look at the code commit process, others lack a process
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- damian manages the code ideas for the volunteer page
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- new volunteers take a lot of time
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- org map of what products exist and how you can help
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- perhaps this is a solved problem, look at [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contribute/#interest Mozilla' s get involved] section of their site
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- see [https://tails.boum.org/contribute/ Tails' contribute pages]
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- perhaps this is a solved problem, look at [Mozilla' s get involved](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contribute/#interest) section of their site
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- see [Tails' contribute pages](https://tails.boum.org/contribute/)
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- focus on task area instead of products
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=== steps to a solution ===
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### steps to a solution
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- need a volunteer coordinator to handle new volunteers
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- redesign the web page
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